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...idea first began when Mindy McDonald, Assistant to the Resident Dean, wanted to bake pumpkin-flavored chocolate-chip cookies for the students for Halloween. Quickly, the idea spiraled into a full-fledged, four-station trick-or-treatin’ heaven for everyone...
...foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France's long-standing policies aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its mission of purging the French language of impurities - often words taken from other languages - way back in 1635. The key objective of the country's 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music, film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports...
With the rapid expansion of the faculty under Kagan’s tenure some of these barriers began to disappear. As the number of appointments increased, faculty no longer feared that positions would not be available for professors with similar methodologies and ideologies...
...trade route 1,000 years ago.The project then grew to include international tours and workshops, with the mission of uniting the world’s neighborhoods through music. The ensemble has since commissioned works from across the globe and led numerous tours across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.When it began its residency here in 2004, the project included a number of educational programs, including small workshops with Harvard undergraduates. In the five years thereafter, the project’s scope expanded to include programs in Chicago and New York City middle schools.The program in New York, called Silk Road Connect...
...Movember will be expanding into five more countries this year, giving the group growers in 10 countries, including the U.S. That gives it a big advantage over its smaller but scrappier rival, Mustaches for Kids, which began in Los Angeles in 1998 and now has about 1,000 members across the country...